Journalists Unite to Drop the I-Word. Covering Immigration Post 9-11: A webinar on the rise of the i-word in public discourseLISTEN IN HERE We’re very excited about the latest endorser of the Drop the I-Word Campaign is UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., a strategic alliance advocating news coverage about people of color, and aggressively challenging its organizations at all levels to reflect the nation’s diversity. UNITY, represents more than 10,000 journalists of color and is comprised of three national associations: Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the Native American Journalists Association. To kick off our partnership, UNITY co-sponsored a Drop the I-Word webinar last week for ethnic and community press also co-sponsored by our friends at New America Media, the country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations. You can listen to the informative briefing here.
The Wikileaks Diversion — The Ghanaian Journal. Regime urged to end repression, free all detained journalists and bloggers. Despite some conciliatory gestures, the Iranian authorities continue to crack down on the media and journalists, closing the weekly Shahrvand Emrouz and the daily Roozegar yesterday. Reporters Without Borders condemns the suppression of free speech and peaceful demonstrations in the northwestern cities of Urmia and Tabriz and the arrests of netizens and journalists. The Commission for Press Licensing and Surveillance, the censorship arm of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, ordered Shahrvand Emrouz’s closure for “insulting the country’s leaders” and because, according to the commission, it was only permitted to cover cultural and social issues. Launched in March 2007 by Mohamad Atrianfar and previously suspended in November 2008, Shahrvand Emrouz had resumed publishing in July with new staff.
Around 100 people have been arrested including netizens and journalists. Family of Slain Journalist Requests Asylum in Australia Because ‘Americans Shoot Us’ Enemy of the state | World news. There could be no doubt: someone had broken into my flat. Three months after arriving in Russia as the Guardian's new Moscow bureau chief, I returned home late from a dinner party. Everything appeared normal. Children's clothes lying in the corridor, books piled horizontally in the living room, the comforting debris of family life.
And then I saw it. It wasn't open when I left five hours earlier, taking my children, Ruskin, six, and Tilly, nine, with me. To open the window, you had to twist the white plastic handle downwards 90 degrees. "Has there been a burglar? " In the spare room I discovered a tape hissing in a music player. It was clear that this was no orthodox burglary. I pretty much knew the identity of my ghosts – or the agency that had sent them. After the end of communism and the Soviet Union, the KGB had got a new name. Someone hacked into my private email account. Two days after publication, I flew from Moscow to London on Aeroflot for a family funeral. "Three months. " Chinese Journalist Following 'Gutter Oil' Scandal Is Found Dead. A Chinese journalist reporting on a scandal surrounding illegal cooking oil was found stabbed to death this week, the journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday.
The reporter, Li Xiang, was stabbed more than 10 times as he returned to his home in the city of Luoyang on Monday, the official English-language China Daily reported. Mr. Li had been following the story of restaurants illegally recycling cooking oil, a dangerous health hazard to diners, and had written about it on his personal blog before his death. Though he had never published any reports for his employer, Luoyang Television, news reports cited Chinese bloggers who said his death was likely connected to his investigation of the oil scandal. At least two million tons of cooking oil are recycled illegally every year in China, the country’s state-run news agency reported last week.
3 U.S. soldiers indicted in death of Spanish journalist. The family and lawyer of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso who was killed in Baghdad in 2003, at a press conference in 2005. NEW: A national court judge ordered the soldiers to post a 1 million euro bondThe long-running case stems from the death of a cameramanThe three U.S. soldiers were first indicted by the judge in 2007 Madrid (CNN) -- A Spanish judge has again indicted three U.S. soldiers in connection with the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq in 2003, according to a court order viewed by CNN Wednesday.
The long-running case stems from the death of the cameraman, Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003. U.S. troops assaulted the Iraqi capital and directed tank fire against the Palestine Hotel, where journalists covering the war were staying. The three U.S. soldiers were first indicted by the judge in 2007. The three, identified as Philip de Camp, Phillip Wolford and Thomas Gibson, were assigned to the U.S. 3rd Infantry, based in Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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